OULIN, JOHN J., M. D., of Jersey City, N. J., was born in Rupert, Benington county, Vt., on December
31st, 1821, and is a descendant of the old English nobility, the family name appearing in the English archives as Ulin. After receiving a sound
education at the Auburn Lyceum, Auburn, N. Y., for the purpose of studying medicine he entered the office of Augustus Willard, M. D., an allopathic
surgeon enjoying a high reputation in southern New York, and late President of the New York Medical Society. Two years later, after attending a partial
course of lectures at Geneva College, he became a student of Alanson Briggs, M. D., of Auburn, late Professor of Surgery in the Geneva Medical College,
an accomplished teacher and a splendid surgeon. Dr. Briggs was at the time surgeon to the State prison at Auburn, so that the subject of this sketch
received unusually good advantages both of practice and of anatomical study. He entered the Medical University of New York for the course of 1847-'48,
and graduated at Cleveland in 1854. He was connected for some time with the New York Dispensary, in White Street, and simultaneously with Dr. Detmold's
clinic of orthopdic surgery.

Since then he has been in active practice in Jersey City.

In his student days he was a most bitter opponent of homopathy, carrying his opposition to ridiculous
extremes. In his preceptor's library he found many homopathic text-books, and in them he sought statements and declarations with which to ridicule
their authors and their doctrines. He procured some of the remedies prescribed, and carefully studying the symptoms, exhibited them in the cases of
prisoners and others placed under his care. The results soon staggered his belief in the accuracy of his old notions, yet it was not until a
homopathic physician had successfully brought him through an attack of fever, to which his allopathic advisers had declared he must succumb, that he
became seriously convinced that the new theory was worth studying for itself. Study was soon followed by conversion ; but although practicing homopathy,
he hesitated to announce the change in his opinions to his distant friends, having been so violent in his opposition to it, and it was not until he had
been two years engaged in following its precepts that his parents knew he had become a homopath. When he removed into New Jersey there were but few
homopathic physicians or patrons in the State, but since that time no State has gained in both with greater rapidity. In Jersey City and Hudson county
the homopaths occupy a position equal to that of the old school in public confidence and esteem. Dr. Youlin has always borne himself toward the
allopaths with independence and firmness, combined with courtesy and respect, thereby gaining their esteem, and compelling a respect equal to that they
pay members of their own school. He is at the present time one of the oldest practicing physicians in Hudson county, and has secured numerous friends,
not only in the medical connection, but politically, and has been on several occasions elected to positions of trust by his fellow-citizens. He is a
member of the Baptist Church, and has been such for over thirty years.

Dr. Youlin was President of the New Jersey State Homopathic Medical Society for eleven years,
remaining in that position until after the obtainment of a charter from the Legislature in 1870. He is now President for the second year, of the Hudson
County Homopathic Medical Society ; a medical director of the Jersey City Dispensary ; he was Vice-President of the American Institute of
Homopathy in 1870-'72 ; and is now President of the Hudson County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

He has contributed largely to the local press, and has carried on several protracted discussions upon
medical topics, interestingly and profitably to the public. His medical writings have not yet seen the light, except a few addresses read before home
societies.